New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-30
TESTING THEIR CLAIMS TO Mon DESCENT
HOW BLOODY DUEL WAS AvERTED By A FOOT
RACE IN DEEP SAND

HOW A BLOODY DUEL WAS AVERTED Bf a Fool-
RACE IN DEEP SAND
School Commissioner Thaddeus Moriarty IS always
eager for joke And what is better he take one as
well ms make one That Is why all persons connected
which will be here related took it in good
part ended laughed over their CLANS ana
drawn unusual satisfaction. Mortar ~ Is "A
cool as a cucumber when he Is putting up job II he
thinks a risk Is being that he is toy Ing WIN
dangerous spirit he Is ready TO placatc outraged
feeling with small bottles and handful OF good
cigars.
James Rogers is a clerk in the Office OF the Board Of
Education fairly well I'D, anced in years lie
neither beard nor musache His head covered by
a t hat the g'Jss Of which might shave yourself
ecclesiastical Is OF approved pat
tern. II you didn't know him You misht think him a
good naurcd old parish priest from the west OF Ireland
revered By his payishoners and honored by all
Next comes William j. Mccormick. the real estate
agent in Chambers-st. You would scarcely know ono
other. True. Rogers has the weight
and bulk while Mccormick, quiet and reflective, Is
garded by his friends cautious and wary thinker
What Rogers does on IS good dandy O punch" such
his namesake John J. knows how to supply. He is
such as Major r. NJ. Hayerty pretty
close in OF that kind, and that saying
thing Mccormick knows what's good for him too,
though the bowling blasts Of winter would have 70 be
upon before he sample anything fiery.
Face to face sat these descendants Of the kings OF
Ireland ono day recently the piazza OF the ocean
House at Far Rockaway. Moriarty was between them
raining IN vigorous rang aEhln>t
the brutality Of the AngoIrish policemen Mi,cheis.
town. Mccormick comes down in direct line from
the Ulster princes, ONelll who smote the English at
Bend urb; while ROgerss a servant the
Kings stirruphodcr in the days Of Brian Boru A. he
the ArdRlgh, in plain American prose- the boss
king OF ireland, he claims blood purer and his
tivity marked than those OF the dcsccndan, Of
mere princeing who owned only slice OF the Black
North" Whcreupon Mccormick becomes angry.
Now It pass that these the piazza
wi he pbafe war PET
proprietor ofthe Ocean House Hugh O'DOnne trustee
OF St Teresas Church, and closely allied tho house OF
that other famous Ulster chleftan, Red Hugh ODonne
long since dead Frank Murtha, who the Windsor
Theatre, and his brother rocking themselves %
and fro, while their heads buried each In copy 81
O1Iats Irish Icdprce' to from what branch Of the
royal stock Of Erin they sprung And JUS
ce John Henry Mccarthy, proud Of the literary achieve
nents Of his namcsakcs both living and dead who We're
satisfied with claiming plain democratic origin The con.
test between Rogers and Mccormick Maeure
whispered 10 MoriaIty. Presently that dicnnc1 Of
Kerry laid aside his cigar and began
MY friends, from the days Of the Roman Empire down
the time when the independence ireland was taken
away, the custom among Of gentle blood Cooking
significantly Rogers Mccormick when any question
Of superiority adjust their disputes by test,
OF phy slcal activity and
Mccormick started, while Rogers struck the table aud
broke glass he shouted IN accents renulous with
passion
Never
Peace, ho" said Justice Mccarthy. aud there was
peace
Now" pursued Morlarty, unbeedng to interruption,
IL IS established TO the satisfaction OF reasonable men
that both you sprung from very high order Of
| beings In Ireland, happily extinct and"
Wh-atT exclaimed Mccormick.
Would you dare sir :" shouted Rogers in Of the
| nercest menace.
Well now, Think began Frank Murtha, rising and
| laying aside " o Iiart's Pedigrecs."
stop" Numbered Justice Mccarthy. "You have yot
10 prove royal blood flows In your veins TIL then
you take part In this quarrel"
NOW happily extinct" continued Moriarty; but
their customs II their laws impcrishabc Prove
your prOwess a The IS from Cunningham
70 Tom Chemists naked bathing place Weight FOR age
and he looked hard az Mccormick The tide Is fun.
by the bones OF King Dahi this quarrel must be settled
! here and now and he he spoke
The cheers OF hundreds dying away the laughter
OF women and children rcsOunded all hands the sun
was going down and the string band which Pat Caslin
supplied NaonalIIOsc playing I'm Rcvenan
de la Revue" aud " Dead March alternately In